Cinema is an artistic and cultural genre that not only tries out with anything that is in front the lens but also looks for objectives that put in front of things. This is the starting point of ‘Life in a day’ a documentary film from the Scottish Kevin Macdonald composed of 80.000 videos, all of them filmed in the same data: 24th July 2010.

This film material that was showed the 27th January in the Sundance Festival by the Ridley Scott production company might be fascinating, but too much patience, time and determination will be required to look for pearls in the unexpected home recording world. Or a good organization, as the one started by Kevin Macdonald in the beginnings of July.

The filmmaker Macdonald also known for ‘The last King of Scotland’ and an award winning for its ‘One Day in September’ has a film sense of smell everywhere a camera is. That way, has known how to appreciate YouTube video advantages to reflect humanity present, and choose the project ‘Life in a day’, a feature film entirely composed by videos as a huge audiovisual patchwork.

Macdonald ask web surfers to recorded whatever they like and sent to him by social net with a unique condition: images must be from the 24th July of 2010, the result will serve as a testimony of a day on the earth human life.

It is a time capsule that will show to future generations who was being alive the 24th July of 2010” the director explains. He compiled 80.000 videos that came to 5.000 hours of film, more than 200 complete days. In the end ‘Life in a day’ will include 1.125 videos. Its premiere the 27th January in the Sundance festival, in Park City (Utah, US) was live shown by YouTube.

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